The noise leaking today from the Ruddock Inquiry into Religious Freedoms in Australia would indicate that Christian organisations that hold to an orthodox sexual ethic in theology and practice should be building their boats for foul weather ahead. That’s a general rule: always build a boat for foul weather. Hope for fair, but build for […]
As a child I’d often wondered how God would collate everything we’ve ever done and present it to us in a neat package on the last day. And then Facebook came along. But seriously. I received the “balloony” thing today, accompanied by a photo of me, congratulating me on my ten well spent years idling […]
England football manager Gareth Southgate is the flavour of the month across social media (flavour of the minute surely!). Lampooned at Euro 96 when his missed penalty saw England bow out against Germany in the semi-finals, he was lauded two nights ago when his new-look England team held their nerve, won a penalty shoot out […]
And the point just before the repentance and then just after:
I am 100 per cent with The Greens in wanting the Lord’s Prayer abolished from Federal Parliament at the start of each sitting day. For 100 per cent different reasons of course. The Lord’s Prayer is too precious and too provocative for Parliament. It’s our prayer, not theirs and we must insist that we take […]
British ultra-marathon star, Steve Way, is one of my favourite runners. Here he is coming third in this year’s Comrades ultra-marathon in South Africa. And it’s not just his story that I like. Though that’s pretty good. A 116kg, 20 smokes a day, pie-eating IT worker who was fed up with being unfit, he hit […]
The reason there has been so much heat in our ethical debates of late is that our secular, sexular culture has moved all of its non-transcendent ground floor projects one floor up to the second floor, a floor given over to transcendence. Let me explain. Our culture has rejected the idea of an external transcendence […]
Christian educational institutions need to get a wriggle on. Schools and other educational institutions that receive government funding have less time than they think to come up with alternate ways to educate students from an orthodox Christian framework and within a specifically orthodox ethical setting. This has been highlighted by the move by Western Australian […]
The trouble with the highly anticipated Incredibles 2 movie is that it is just not credible enough. Fourteen years after our hearts were stolen by the all too recognisable Parr family, a group of superheroes condemned to living par or even below par American lives, all the while knowing they were destined for something better, […]
It’s doubtful whether Marie Antoinette ever said “Let them eat cake”, but her Francophone counterparts in Canada have truly declared “They cannot practice law.” This week, while religious freedom advocates are all eating cake to celebrate the Supreme Court in the USA deciding for Masterpiece Cake shop baker, Jack Phillips, the real future for freedom […]
